Opaque
adjective
Not allowing light to pass through, not transparent.
The bathroom windows are made of opaque glass for privacy.
Often appears as...
- opaque glass
- opaque substance
adjective
Not easy to understand or explain, hard to perceive.
His lecture was opaque and confusing.
Often appears as...
- opaque explanation
- opaque reasoning
adjective
Preventing the passage of radiant energy, like X-rays.
Certain opaque substances are used in radiology to help visualize structures within the body.
Often appears as...
- opaque substance in radiology
- opaque to x-rays
Usage tips
Technical
adjective
Not shining or bright, dull.
After years of exposure to the sun, the house paint had become opaque and faded.
Often appears as...
- opaque color
- opaque paint
adjective
Not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy, like infrared radiation.
Certain materials are opaque to specific wavelengths of light.
Often appears as...
- opaque to infrared
- opaque material
Usage tips
Technical
adjective
Not allowing light to pass through, not transparent.
The bathroom windows are made of opaque glass for privacy.
Often appears as...
- opaque glass
- opaque substance
adjective
Not easy to understand or explain, hard to perceive.
His lecture was opaque and confusing.
Often appears as...
- opaque explanation
- opaque reasoning
adjective
Preventing the passage of radiant energy, like X-rays.
Certain opaque substances are used in radiology to help visualize structures within the body.
Often appears as...
- opaque substance in radiology
- opaque to x-rays
Usage tips
Technical
adjective
Not shining or bright, dull.
After years of exposure to the sun, the house paint had become opaque and faded.
Often appears as...
- opaque color
- opaque paint
adjective
Not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy, like infrared radiation.
Certain materials are opaque to specific wavelengths of light.
Often appears as...
- opaque to infrared
- opaque material
Usage tips
Technical
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Pro Tip 1/2Privacy Usage
Used to describe things that prevent visibility for privacy, like curtains or screens.
They installed opaque curtains to prevent onlookers.
Pro Tip 2/2Light Blocker
Refers to substances that completely block light, unlike 'translucent' materials.
The walls were painted with an opaque coating.
Pro Tip 1/2Privacy Usage
Used to describe things that prevent visibility for privacy, like curtains or screens.
They installed opaque curtains to prevent onlookers.
Pro Tip 2/2Light Blocker
Refers to substances that completely block light, unlike 'translucent' materials.
The walls were painted with an opaque coating.
Pro Tip 1/2Privacy Usage
Used to describe things that prevent visibility for privacy, like curtains or screens.
They installed opaque curtains to prevent onlookers.
Pro Tip 2/2Light Blocker
Refers to substances that completely block light, unlike 'translucent' materials.
The walls were painted with an opaque coating.
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How I accidentally...
and not come back until you've found the best and most profitable books there. It's anarchic and gleefully opaque. And everyone has their method to address these problems. You know, most rely on the major agencies and they just assume that if there's great talent in the world,
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Can you solve the...
There are no reflective surfaces, all water is in opaque containers, and most importantly, they're not allowed to communicate among themselves. Though they do see each other during each morning's head count. Nevertheless, they all know no one would ever risk trying to leave
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What the discovery of...
They're very useful; we've learned a lot about the Universe from them. The problem is, all the interesting physics happens in the core, and the core is hidden behind thousands of kilometers of iron and carbon and silicon. We'll never see through it, it's opaque to light.
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Don Tapscott: Four...
And there's no more powerful force to change every institution than the first generation of digital natives. I'm a digital immigrant. I had to learn the language. The global economic crisis is opening up the world as well. Our opaque institutions from the Industrial Age,
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Palenque and the Ancient...
there's a lot of this it's really opaque and really hard for us to understand but we get a sense of you know this long narrative about Pacal and his long reign and all of the things he did venerating the gods and keeping the cosmos going but they're characterizing this
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The making of cosmic...
temperature is so high that all of matter was in the form of plasma photons protons and electrons were all together in this cosmic soup photons and electrons were interacting so that the universe was opaque for much the same reason that you can't see through the
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What happens to people...
Other than execution, incarceration is the most intrusive power of the the deprivation of citizens' liberty. But no government institution is more opaque and less accountable than prison. Even though prisons are supported by tax payers
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David Bolinsky:...
And you can actually roll some of the pictures now, because I don't want to look at me on the screen. Truth and beauty are things that are often opaque to people who are not in the sciences.
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Benjamin Barber: Why...
even when opaque, stubborn nations refuse to act. So what's the bottom line here? The bottom line is, we still live politically in a world of borders, a world of boundaries,
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Destined to Grow Apart...
my craggy grimy surface yields no fertile bouncy yay I am now ill-fated and hard lot yet there was a time when vast oceans rippled on the opaque skies
Video examples
How I accidentally...
and not come back until you've found the best and most profitable books there. It's anarchic and gleefully opaque. And everyone has their method to address these problems. You know, most rely on the major agencies and they just assume that if there's great talent in the world,
Video examples
Can you solve the...
There are no reflective surfaces, all water is in opaque containers, and most importantly, they're not allowed to communicate among themselves. Though they do see each other during each morning's head count. Nevertheless, they all know no one would ever risk trying to leave
Video examples
What the discovery of...
They're very useful; we've learned a lot about the Universe from them. The problem is, all the interesting physics happens in the core, and the core is hidden behind thousands of kilometers of iron and carbon and silicon. We'll never see through it, it's opaque to light.
Video examples
Don Tapscott: Four...
And there's no more powerful force to change every institution than the first generation of digital natives. I'm a digital immigrant. I had to learn the language. The global economic crisis is opening up the world as well. Our opaque institutions from the Industrial Age,
Video examples
Palenque and the Ancient...
there's a lot of this it's really opaque and really hard for us to understand but we get a sense of you know this long narrative about Pacal and his long reign and all of the things he did venerating the gods and keeping the cosmos going but they're characterizing this
Video examples
The making of cosmic...
temperature is so high that all of matter was in the form of plasma photons protons and electrons were all together in this cosmic soup photons and electrons were interacting so that the universe was opaque for much the same reason that you can't see through the
Video examples
What happens to people...
Other than execution, incarceration is the most intrusive power of the the deprivation of citizens' liberty. But no government institution is more opaque and less accountable than prison. Even though prisons are supported by tax payers
Video examples
David Bolinsky:...
And you can actually roll some of the pictures now, because I don't want to look at me on the screen. Truth and beauty are things that are often opaque to people who are not in the sciences.
Video examples
Benjamin Barber: Why...
even when opaque, stubborn nations refuse to act. So what's the bottom line here? The bottom line is, we still live politically in a world of borders, a world of boundaries,
Video examples
Destined to Grow Apart...
my craggy grimy surface yields no fertile bouncy yay I am now ill-fated and hard lot yet there was a time when vast oceans rippled on the opaque skies
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Lawrence Kudlow
American Journalist
Corporate tax reform should include not just large C-corps but also smaller business S-corps and LLC pass-throughs. And nearly as important as cutting business tax rates is the need to simplify the inexplicably opaque and complex system.
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Gary Wolf
American Journalist
For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware how much of human behavior is a mystery. People do things for unfathomable reasons. They are opaque even to themselves.
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Roberta Smith
American Critic
The obsessions of others are opaque to the unobsessed, and thus easy to mock. NASCAR, jazz, baseball, roses, poetry, quilts, fishing. If we're lucky, we all have at least one.
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Heidi Roizen
American Businessman
The individual dynamics going on within a venture fund are critically important to you. Unfortunately, they're also very opaque.
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Jim Bishop
American Journalist
The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.
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Sigmund Freud
Austrian Psychologist
The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
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Jason Calacanis
American Businessman
Commercial real estate is really a black box: its super opaque, and it's hard to get the information.
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Heather Bresch
American Businesswoman
The pricing of a pharmaceutical product is opaque and frustrating, especially for patients.
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Patrick deWitt
Canadian Novelist
My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.
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Glenn Ligon
American Artist
I'm interested in when language fails, when it is opaque.
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Lawrence Kudlow
American Journalist
Corporate tax reform should include not just large C-corps but also smaller business S-corps and LLC pass-throughs. And nearly as important as cutting business tax rates is the need to simplify the inexplicably opaque and complex system.
Quote examples
Gary Wolf
American Journalist
For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware how much of human behavior is a mystery. People do things for unfathomable reasons. They are opaque even to themselves.
Quote examples
Roberta Smith
American Critic
The obsessions of others are opaque to the unobsessed, and thus easy to mock. NASCAR, jazz, baseball, roses, poetry, quilts, fishing. If we're lucky, we all have at least one.
Quote examples
Heidi Roizen
American Businessman
The individual dynamics going on within a venture fund are critically important to you. Unfortunately, they're also very opaque.
Quote examples
Jim Bishop
American Journalist
The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.
Quote examples
Sigmund Freud
Austrian Psychologist
The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
Quote examples
Jason Calacanis
American Businessman
Commercial real estate is really a black box: its super opaque, and it's hard to get the information.
Quote examples
Heather Bresch
American Businesswoman
The pricing of a pharmaceutical product is opaque and frustrating, especially for patients.
Quote examples
Patrick deWitt
Canadian Novelist
My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.
Quote examples
Glenn Ligon
American Artist
I'm interested in when language fails, when it is opaque.
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